The New England Council of Latin American Studies awarded its 2011 Best Article Prize to an article co-authored by Professor Torres. Precursors to Femicide: Guatemalan Women in a Vortex of Violence by David Carey, Jr and M. Gabriela Torres published in the Latin American Research Review, vol. 45, no. 3 was recognized by the committee [...]

Professor Donna Kerner in collaboration with Patrick Rashleigh and the Wheaton in Tanzania 2011 Program published "Letters of Hope" in CURA's inaugural issue: Casa (Issue 1). The crafted letter from Tanzanian high school students to President Obama beautifully expresses Professor Kerner's desire to craft a course experience where American students could work in the service [...]

Anthropology classes took to the Archive this term! Professor Ninian Stein's Archaeologies of Landscape had the opportunity to be landscape detectives and explore Wheaton College's changing environment through photographs, historic maps, paintings, deeds, diaries, wills, probate inventories, and Mrs. Wheaton's handsaw for cutting down trees. Professor Donna Kerner's FYS "Magical Hair" explored Wheaton's eclectic collection [...]